Africa Great Lakes Democracy Watch

Welcome toAfrica Great Lakes Democracy Watch Blog.Our objective is to promote the institutions of democracy,social justice,Human Rights,Peace, Freedom ofExpression, and Respect to humanity in Rwanda,Uganda,DR Congo, Burundi,Sudan, Tanzania, Kenya,Ethiopia, and Somalia. We strongly believe that Africa will develop if only our presidents stop being rulers of men and become leaders of citizens. We support Breaking the Silence Campaign for DR Congo since we believe the democracy in Rwanda means peace inDRC. Follow this link to learn more about the origin of the war in both Rwanda and DR Congo:http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/cgi-bin/library

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

RWANDA-DRC-UGANDA:WHY THE KAMPALA SUMMIT WAS A TOTAL FAILURE

So the International Conference on Great Lakes (ICGLR) summit in
Kampala is over, boycotted by the principal culprit in the tragedy,
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, and presided over by President Museveni
of Uganda. Though it had been widely publicized that twelve Heads of
States would attend the summit, only President Mwai Kibaki of Kenya and
President

Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania
showed up. It has been established, credibly and compellingly by the UN
Group of Experts Report that Rwanda and Uganda are behind the so-called
M23 rebellion in DRC.

It is self-evident that the international
community is not interested in the plight of Congolese people. The
summit was notable in the absence of other Africans and African
institutions. The absence of concerned Africans and institutions was
compounded by the much expected absence of the rest of the international
community.

The so-called International Conference on the
Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) whose establishment Rwanda opposed until
Kagame was comforted that it would be an ineffectual body, is a largely
ignored body. Unless he can manipulate it and bend it to his wishes,
Kagame has no respect for it. Like Kagame, Museveni knows that ICGLR is a
toothless tool to be brandished to attract the attention of the western
powers and international community on the one hand, while keeping some
concerned Africans and international community from acting in response
to the endless crises in the Great lakes region on the other. "Leave it
to us, we shall handle it ourselves", Museveni tells Americans and
Europeans who are not about to shed their blood to defend Africans dying
in DRC. When asked by concerned constituencies as to what is being done
about the bleeding of DRC and Rwanda, western powers will say, " O, we
support Africans to solve their own problems through regional bodies
like ICGLR". This is a coded way of saying, " if Africans are butchering
themselves, let them put their house in order".

President
Kagame, the most notorious culprit in the DRC saga, decided to snub his
peers in the region, and did not show up. That is his typical arrogance
and disdain towards other Africans and sections of the international
community that increasingly look at him as a villain who presides over a
rogue state. What did the summit hope to achieve without the offending
party in the conflict? Could we assume that he knew so well that
President Museveni, with whom they have a history of adventure into DRC,
would take care of their mutual interests? Nothing of substance came
out of the summit. The whole diplomatic circus was a public relations
gimmick to mislead African and international opinion.

It is
indeed ridiculous that the summit decided that "one company of an
international neutral force, one company of the Congolese army (FARDC)
and one company of M23" would be deployed in Goma. Essentially, two
companies ( neutral force + Congolese army) and one company of enemy
forces (M23+ Rwanda+ Uganda) would be dancing together in Goma! Where
over 20, 000 UN peacekeepers with an annual budget of over 1.5 billion
US dollars have failed, how will the two penniless companies succeed?

The most outrageous outcome of the summit is the futile provision that
Rwandan and Ugandan generals are to oversee, supervise and lead the
cessation of hostilities and peace process in DRC. General Kabarebe (
Minister of Defence of Rwanda), General Kayonga ( Chief of Defence
Forces of Rwanda) and other Rwandan senior officers have been identified
by the UN Group of Experts Report as the architects and operational
leaders of the M23 war-making effort. Uganda's military officers,
notably General Salim Saleh ( President Museveni's young brother),
General Kale Kayihura ( Uganda's Chief of Police) and other Ugandan
officers have been mentioned by the same UN Report. If the international
community was interested in ending the conflict, there should be robust
sanctions against these individuals and their commanders-in-chief.
Museveni and Kagame sat and decided that they would supervise and lead
the sham process. The lions have decided they will baby-sit the lambs.

The Congolese people should set aside their differences and unite to
reject this latest Kagame aggression against the sovereignty and
territorial integrity of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Africans and
the rest of the international community should unite in support of the
Congolese and Rwandan brothers and sisters to get rid of the brutal
regime of President Kagame that has brought so much death and
destruction to Congolese and Rwandan people.

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